Something To Think About

Humility

A man went to Wahab Imri and said:
“Teach me humility.”

Wahab answered:
“I cannot do that, because humility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practice. If you cannot practise it, you cannot learn it. If you cannot learn it, you do not really want to learn it inwardly at all.”
_{Idries Shah, Wisdom of the Idiots}

We should make our hearts the source of love for the entire universe and should have so much humility that even if a person does evil to us, we should return love for the same. In truth, one who is embellished with humility loses the capacity of stinging others. Even if anyone harms him, he does not think evil of him. Sheikh Sa’adi says:

I am like an ant which is trampled,
I am not like a bee which stings.

Egotism or pride is not liked by the Lord. He showers his grace on those whose mind is full of humility and meekness. Water does not gather at the top of hills but flows down and accumulates there. He who bends drinks water, but he who holds his head high remains thirsty.
_{Maharaj Sawan Singh, Philosophy of the Masters, Vol. III}